Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 80, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 10, 2008, 12:45 AM EDT for Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 15 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2008, 12:45 AM EDT (04:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2008, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KMFL 100445
TORMFL
FLC087-100500-
/O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0080.080910T0445Z-080910T0500Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1245 AM EDT WED SEP 10 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.
* UNTIL 100 AM EDT
* AT 1242 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CAPE
SABLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 41 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
MIDDLE CAPE SABLE...
NORTHWEST CAPE SABLE...
AND SURROUNDING CAMPSITES.
IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY
BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS.
GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 2515 8113 2516 8115 2520 8115 2524 8118
2526 8118 2526 8117 2528 8116 2512 8106
2512 8109
TIME...MOT...LOC 0445Z 145DEG 35KT 2513 8111
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HANDELThe office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 10:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier | 46 min |
| Sep 10, 12:34 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 56 min | |
| Sep 10, 1:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 38 min |
| Sep 10, 1:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 51 min |
| Sep 10, 3:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 56 min |
| Sep 10, 3:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 21 min |
| Sep 10, 3:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 64 min |
| Sep 10, 4:12 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Collier | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 4:34 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier | 35 min |
| Sep 10, 4:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 76 min |
| Sep 10, 5:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 14 min |
| Sep 10, 5:44 AM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 12 hr | |
| Sep 10, 6:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Monroe | 77 min |
| Sep 10, 11:24 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | MFL | Collier | 26 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.